Which body shape will be in "fashion" next?
We have had the soft skinned pale burlesque’s, the twiggy’s followed by the androgynous. Then it was the athletic (big shoulders slanting down to thin hips). The heroine chick, and finally the most irritating of all the “gym bunny”. I have probably left out a few, but when will the gym bunny die out. I am tired of their arrogant muscular bodies pontificating all over the place. What possibly could be the “new body shape” of fashion? I also think Madonna’s arms suck by the way.
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I hope we either go with Marilyn Monroe-like bounteous curves, or pear-shaped fruity lusciousness.
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I hope we go for curves. I’m tired of looking at bony boylike bodies.
Sorry to everyone above me, but it looks like we’re trending towards Holocaust-survivor-esque.
It doesn’t matter, ultimately every body type will have it’s fans. Just like no one flavor of anything meets the tastes of the masses.
Same with any form of attraction.
Someone will always be attracted to you, even when you are 87! lol
I’m hoping it will be the “natural” look of a woman, real breasts, that bounce naturally. Real hips that sway with walking. Real hair that grows out of your head. Real eyes that sparkle with a woman’s knowing grin. Real laughter and a sincere voice.
That is what I think is beautiful.
I agree with whoever said Marilyn Monroe. She was perfect. Not six foot tall and 100 pounds like most models are. That looks gross. She was nice and small and soft looking, lol.
@Coloma ah! but we are talking “fashion” not personal attraction and body love.
@deni she was divine! ...sigh
@wilma indeed the rarity of real hair growing out of the head, and real nails growing at the end of ones fingers loll.
I think thin is good, I do think we will continue as Americans to idealize thin women, but I too do not like overly muscular women who are skinny. I do not find it attractive at all. Thin and skinny are different to me. On most women it is probably only a difference of 5–10 pounds, but makes all of the difference in the world. I like women to have some softness to them.
I also hope we won’t continue on this trend of looking “plastic.” Fake everything, skin that looks obviously peeled, and too much botox, and worse when too much is added to remove wrinkles or puff things up. I am fine with a little plastic surgery or derm work, but it is taken too far too often.
There’s a fashion scene for body types?? Funny I just thought I was attracted to thin women. Didn’t know I might be following a trend for a specific one I might find attractive.
am I getting old? Lol
@Just_Justine
Oh…guess I went off on one of my non-linear jags. lol
Okay…hmm….fashion?
How ‘bout bohemian gypsy belly dancer with curves? Thats my personel fav. bring it on! hahaha
I hold out hope that we return to people who look like people- with all the wrinkles, freckles and rainbow of non-blonde hair colors that it entails. I’m tired of everyone in fashion looking alike and looking more like a caricature of a human rather than a real human.
it’s a small hope but I’m clinging tightly
@Axemusica I do think we are conditioned towards certain body types by the media, and what we grow up around. It helps to form what we find is attractive.
@JLeslie sometimes it makes me laugh when im looking at a magazine and i see a makeup ad with an up close photo of a woman’s face. well. i should use “photo” with caution…it obviously started out as a photo but for some reason they feel the need to photoshop the picture so much that it clearly is not even her skin we’re seeing. it’s every possible flaw, “wrinkle”, anything else being removed and whats left looks plastic and completely fake.
not to mention the ads for sally hansen nail stuff. in those advertisements the nail is clearly fake. and they always forget to put a cuticle on the fingernail, which is really a dead giveaway. it looks so bad. advertisers are dumb sometimes.
I just Google imaged ‘Gym Bunny’ as I wasn’t waware of what they looked like….. I suspect that the IT department will be giving me a call after what I saw!
@gemiwing I’m with you! I’m worried that today’s generation will grow up seeing all of the weird plastic surgery faces and think that those are natural!
And, I think wrinkles are attractive on men and women. It’s character. Unfortunatly, aging gracefully is out of style. Can you believe it?
I’m hoping for the face cream look to gain popularity.
@Coloma why, thank you!
@jealoustome I agree. I worry that we’re raising a generation of young women who will loathe themselves because there’s nothing out there that reflects them. How will they know how beautiful they are?
@gemiwing I showed this video to my eleven year old daughter. It made an impression.
@JLeslie yea, well i’ve kind of always been against anything involving fashion. As I got older I just stopped caring so much about being so against it. I guess I have just become oblivious to obtaining any form of a fashion sense, haha.
@deni almost more disturbing to me is meeting these people in person or watching them on film, without the airbrushing. They are overworked (meaning have had a lot of work done) it is bazaar. The last actress I noticed this on was Sandra Bullock. She is still beautiful, she has not gone so far that she looks distorted, but she has lost her softness, and I don’t think it is just age, I think she did something.
From what I understand in England you can not false advertise a product with touched pictures. So, it is ok to airbrush a model for a cover page of a magazine, but not ok to airbrush her thighs if she is promoting a product for cellulite, or brush out her wrinkles if it is an add for wrinkle cream. That makes sense to me.
@jealoustome That video was amazing. I bookmarked it to share with others later. I also think it’s very admirable that you showed it to your daughter so she could learn the truth.
Sorry you’ve all just reminded me of those bloody L’Oreal adverts with Andy McDowell, conceited cow, I hate her soooooo much!
@gemiwing Thanks. I’m glad I was able to show her such a clear and obvious demonstration.
I can speak from experience here as a 50 yr. old woman who is very committed to growing old gracefully.
I have a petite athletic but curvy body type, and I have found that as I have moved through my 40’s, while still happy with my face, skin, hair etc. that being about 15 lbs. over my ideal weight adds much softness to my face and I have few wrinkles showing up other than the morning puffy eyes thing.
My best freind and biz. partner is the classic ‘queen of them all’ type. 5’11 barefoot, beautiful face, very thin and she is not aging well at all. She is about to botox her cheeks, do an eye/eyebrow lift and cut some tendons in her neck that look sinewy.
If she would consider putting on a few pounds I think that her face would plump up nicely and she would look healthier.
I have several friends who have been the cosmetic surgery guinea pigs, and while I have no interest in going under the knife for anything cosmetic, it has been very interesting to see their ‘results’ of which I am not at all impressed.
7–10k for results so subtle….jeez, glad I’m spending my money on whats really important, travel, hot tubs and wine! lolololol
@JeffVader LOL. I never found her attractive. Although I would not go as far to say cow. I never understood Loreal’s choice when they signed her up.
@jealoustome I don’t think they think it is natural, but I do think they think it is normal.
@Coloma I am committed to growing old “disgracefully” so far so good!!
@Coloma there is an old saying, “eventually you have to decide between your ass and your face.”
I expect the muffin top waist look to become accepted with everyone glued to their computers no one will be out getting exercise. Better for me as I will have the woods all to myself!
@JLeslie Hahaha, yeh, i dont know what it is about her, I just see her & get angry :)
@JLeslie Hahahaha….yep!
@Just_Justine I’m with ya sister!
Dare I confess that I am making some ‘garden’ variety brownies this week? Oops too late..well, what can I say!
@JLeslie Ah, yes. I meant that it would be a “natural” choice to get the surgery instead of growing old gracefully. Not that the faces look natural.
@JLeslie Badly written on my part. I wrote what you thought I meant, but meant something different :)
The girl next door look.Your typical average curves in all the right places girl.
Eventually people will probably learn that a person in good physical shape with a healthy body fat percentage does not have a visible “six pack”.
Ladies I hope that you realize that what you see on the cover of your fashion and exercise magazines and in TV commercials is not necessarily what men find attractive for a partner. I mean it may sell the product, but it doesn’t necessarily keep the man. Just some food for thought
Little boobs will probably come back in. There are so many women with fake ones now days, that everyone will want to be different, and have little tots. lol
@sleepdoc i think the men that find those types of women attractive are (usually) men who are not interested in anything but physical appearance and sex, and therefore very often not worth any woman’s time.
Anime waifs. You just have to figure out how to have the face of a seven-year-old, eyes the size of a whale’s, and a Barbie body.
Good luck widdat. I like women in all kinds of shapes. (Not that a huge number of them care what I like. Just enough, I guess. I’m happy.)
Since I’ve got the body I’ve got, I really don’t give a flying fuck what body type is in fashion!
@janbb I also don’t give a flying fuck, I am just tired of muscular bound women with a certain arrogance at their “achievement”. I had a guy at work say “Oooh her six pack is so hot”. I mean really, I told him “You must be gay, six packs are meant for men” Any way no offence to the six packing females. Each to their own. But when it is idealized I always ask why!
Um… all throughout this thread, people keep saying that thin girls are constantly idolized, but it seems like every time I see a discussion about body shapes, thin girls always get put down. People are always saying that thin girls look gross and that being curvy is so much more desirable. While I think it’s great to emphasize that being curvy is beautiful, so as to discourage eating disorders and the like, I have to wonder when it was decided that thin girls don’t have feelings…
I am very thin naturally and I never feel as though my body type is desired or admired in any way, despite what everyone seems to think. More than anything, I feel like I get put down for not being curvy, as it seems that the new trend is to diss skinny girls.
It just seems to me that it’s everyone’s opinion that “real women have curves” which, sure, is usually true. But, as someone who has never had any kind of eating disorder, and tries and tries to gain weight but can’t seem to hit 95 pounds, I don’t appreciate being told that I’m not a real woman when this is how I am naturally. I know that I’m in the minority here, but it still bothers me a bit, for some reason.
I really don’t care what shape is in fashion. It is kind of sad that “little boy-chic” is the thing right now…as I continue to stuff cupcakes in my face =)
Why not a complete redesign? The current one is the product of haphazard evolution. Let’s get some artists, engineers, kinesiologists and ergonomists together, and come up with something really good.
@Mariah I think thin can be very beautiful, as long as it’s natural. I never said anything about thin or fat or round or flat. I said “natural” I always think that what you are naturally is truly when you are beautiful.
@gemiwing – Wonderful! I agree with you, 100%. What is wrong with a wrinkle…oh, it shows that you may have shown some emotion! when did that become a bad thing? I love laugh lines. Botox is evil. EVIL!
@dpworkin I thought that’s what the Japanese were doing…
Whats even worse is when someone you know puts 5k into their face and you can’t really even see a difference! lol
This happened to me a few years ago, I was so stymied trying to think of something to say that wasn’t a complete lie! hahaha
@Mariah the thread wasn’t about thin or curvy girls, I glanced, so may have missed comments about thin not being OK. But didn’t see it.It was about the ludicrous ability of fashion to dictate a body shape. A lot answered what they hoped to see, or what their body type is. Also some mentioned that fashion is ridiculous in dictating a body shape. Which is correct and we are hopefully outgrowing this dictation. Most said the natural shape of a person is what is important whether it is thin, curvy, bit wrinkled, small or big breasts. The main point is be oneself without pain, (surgery) or other inflicted regimes on body such as over the top dieting. Excessive exercise and or body building. Natural it seems; is in.
@bellusfemina Little boobs are the best, I’m sure this is a generalisation but they always seem to be more senstive than their larger cousins.
@Just_Justine Sorry for my long rant, really, I know that it wasn’t completely on topic. And I do agree that natural, no matter what it entails, is always the best. I guess the problem is that people usually assume that being very thin isn’t natural, since it’s less common. I don’t know why it is that I just can’t seem to gain weight, but I’m sure many, many people who don’t know me assume that I have an eating disorder. I’m sure I look like I do.
I guess my frustration resulted from the fact this is not even close to being the first time that I’ve seen a discussion about body types where being thin gets put down. It seems to me that calling heavier girls fat has just become so taboo and it’s considered a terrible thing to say, but for some reason, it’s okay to refer to thin girls as bony. And in trying to protect the self-esteem of heavier girls, we tell them that being thin isn’t so great, that it looks gross, etc. but we ignore the fact that there are thin girls out there who may be bothered by that. Sorry, I didn’t mean to extend my rant further, and I know that this isn’t what the thread was originally about. I just wanted to put my views out there, as I know that I have a point of view on this that doesn’t get heard too often.
@Mariah yes of course. All bodies are great, if they are loved by their owner. Not many can manage though. All or most bodies to me look beautiful if dressed correctly and appreciated. I work with naturally beautiful women at work who are thin then there are the dieters that drive me nuts (they are already slim) but are going for “skinny” I think? Do you know I have fruit flies buzzing all around my desk from their diets loll. In a meeting one day one flew up my nostril!!! I just wish we could be what we are. I am a bit “off” the body builders because a lot of them it just seems obsessive and takes up a lot of their lives. Again not all. When I work out I get muscles very fast, so I’d be offended if someone said what I said loll. But its all this “trying” to be something else that is so, well “irritating”. and pointless. This “fad” following or societal expectation which is interchangeable.
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